Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center is located in El Paso, Texas, less than two miles from the international border and the Paso Del Norte port of entry.

Las Americas provides free and low-cost immigration services ranging from deportation defense and detained asylum work to humanitarian affirmative immigration work and family-based petitions.

We are primarily in need of attorneys, partially and fully accredited representatives, law students, law graduates, and non-practicing attorneys. Not you? Please still get in touch if you’re interested in volunteering and we can see how your skills fit.

While we love having experienced immigration attorneys join us, we will provide you with the training you need to conduct intakes, credible fear interview preparation sessions, and other tasks. Please tell us in advance whether or not you have previous immigration experience.

No. Although most of our clients are monolingual Spanish speakers, we do have access to a language line to assist in interpretation. Please keep in mind that activities for non-Spanish speakers may vary based on interpreter availability. Speak another language? We also frequently have clients who speak K’iche,’ Portuguese, and French. ** If you are participating in a pro bono delegation, we require that at least half of the group speak Spanish to assist with legal work and interpretation for colleagues.

We ask pro-bono volunteers to commit at least one week to volunteering with us. That allows us to provide the necessary training to each group and allows you to assist as many people as possible.

Depending on your licensing/legal background, you can expect to do Credible Fear Interview Preparation sessions with detained migrants, attend Master Calendar hearings, research country conditions, assemble asylum packets, visit clients in El Paso, Otero, or Sierra Blanca, participate in Know Your Rights Presentations, collect data on human rights violations, observing asylum seekers at the international bridge, and other needed activities.

Las Americas is unable to provide stipends or funding for this volunteer program. Some pro-bonos have been able to secure partial funding from professional groups, law schools, churches, or personal fundraising.

It is easiest to fly into the El Paso International airport, which is located less than seven miles from our office.

It is easiest to fly into the El Paso International airport, which is located less than seven miles from our office.

El Paso does not have efficient public transportation. We highly recommend that at any group of pro bonos have at least one vehicle. Driving is necessary to get to the detention centers, some of which are located more than half an hour away.

Please email volunteersinfo@las-americas.org with any additional questions.

Please fill out the interest form on our Pro Bono Program page and our volunteer coordinator will follow up with you to coordinate logistics and scheduling.